Making S4N4 Part 2 (Success!!)

[@terawattyear]

Nice clean crystallization! I guess you saw the Wikipedia article on S4N4 where they state "S4N4 is thermochromic, changing from pale yellow below −30 °C to orange at room temperature to deep red above 100 °C". This stuff can actually be yellow and still be the product you wanted!

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

I think the dioxane solution was a lot more red when hot during the soxhlet extraction too, so perhaps I was too quick to dismiss it. But the procedure calls for slow, room temp evaporation of the dioxane to avoid any explosions, and I didn't think it was worth that risk and excessive time unless I thought I was going to get a product out that was better than I already had

[@Eldanoth]

For a collegue... you awake the passion many years ago take to study chemistry and try to master it! Keep it up!

[@RamsesYT]

8:49: "... I would be flying into an inconsolable rage..." - that sir, made me lol so hard it almost hurt. I am happy your hard work paid off. Only to clean all that up... 😅 thanks man!

[@alans7358]

_soxhilic extraction_

[@FinestSeven]

_Tolulene_

[@michaelathens953]

Very cool man! I've been sort of a "back yard chemist" for years and your videos always inspire me to try new synthesis. Keep up the great work!

[@ExplosionsAndFire]

Thanks, glad you like the videos, stay safe always though!

[@michaelathens953]

I appreciate your reply, thanks. I have a perfect record so far concerning safety; I'd very much like to keep it that way (along with all my fingers, sight/hearing, hair/skin, home, etc. etc.). Excellent advice.

[@dat_chip]

The graphic descriptions of the various smells are definately a part of the fun watching this kind of video. :)

[@mfree80286]

Ever hear of the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments? You can get a copy in PDF, and while it's really oriented towards young teens it's full of some rather surprising things... like page 32 with a little blurb on making Nitrogen Dioxide in a test tube. EDIT: Guess I could elaborate, it's from 1960 and has a lot of offsides info on unusual sources for chemicals and some really interesting low-budget equipment setups. Oh, and enough "hazardous" amateur chemistry to get it pulled...

[@utsuhoreiuji6155]

God I love the 60s😂

[@freehat2722]

Awesome book. Thank you.

[@TheMrmusolini]

you actually do such a great job at describing smells xP

[@juzziee]

the way you described the smell of this was fucking funny, well done mate keep up the good humor and chemestry

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Thanks mate! I come across many bad smells, I'm glad I'm getting better at describing them

[@rthefish]

Ah, Melbourne Bitter (Beer) and dangerous chemicals. My kind of KZbin Channel.

[@2AMProductions]

What a journey! Awesome to watch, beautiful final product!

[@nicholastravisano3439]

Nice job man !!! Keep up the good posts 🙏🏼

[@KanisAutomotiveStuff]

Why the fuck do you only have 7500 subscribers, it's all there, memes, quality and explosives... I found you around 5 am this morning and you are now all over my feed 😂 keep it going man

[@hayuseen6683]

4 years later, nearly 200k on this side channel 🎉

[@KanisAutomotiveStuff]

@@hayuseen6683 yeah , he had to blow up

[@apodis4900]

You should release some of your more risky experiments on BitChute, where people care less about warnings. Then release a short KZbin video to advertise the BitChute one. If someone is capable of making S4N4, it's highly likely that they know the risks, everyone else just likes watching. Fantastic video mate, I love your content.

[@stephenratcliffe7224]

Liking the dolmio glassware

[@Blowcrafter]

finally there is somebody, that makes as bad examples as me xD Starts talking and realizes half way through he doesn't know how to finish the comparison and thinks of just some random crap

[@AlexBesogonov]

Wow, that intensely pink smoke. I don't think I've ever seen such a pink product before.

[@darkobul1]

Amazing how many compounds are there among metals and non metals.

[@a2pabmb2]

Being that "metals and non-metals" describes every single element under the sun... is it really that amazing?

[@lens3973]

@@a2pabmb2 yeah

[@NOBOX7]

Right on man , i thought they banned you bro , you have no links on your old channels , i watched all your videos form the old channel and was disappointed to see you gone bro

[@johnmorrell3187]

His old channel basically got deleted but this one's been still going, and there's a new explosionsandfire. I find it hilarious that someone on KZbin thinks that a child might actually recreate THIS. Anyone remotely capable of using these videos to make bombs could just as easily (more easily) read the academic papers he's basing the stuff off of.

[@senorjp21]

Great channel! Channels! Going to binge from the beginning... Someone should replicate NurdRage's tertiary alcohol catalyzed reduction of sodium - you might be the guy.

[@nahshondaniel5824]

Duuuude! Explosions and fire needs some love too..

[@pomegranatechannel]

Wait, I'm pretty sure I was subscribed to your channel, now I'm not and I was actually looking for your channel for a while but couldn't find it. Did your channel disappear or it's a new channel or what? I'm so confused...

[@gabrielgray817]

If you watch a youtube synthesis of an obscenely yellow chemical, do you dislike it?

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Maybe I enjoy it more when someone else does it, like a sick fascination. Horror movie where you don't watch to watch but you do it anyway

[@gabrielgray817]

Weird flex, but okay

[@AtlasReburdened]

@@gabrielgray817 Lol, weird definition of flex, but okay.

[@gabrielgray817]

Odd comment on a slang definition of flex, but acceptable

[@AtlasReburdened]

@@gabrielgray817 Slang is an odd way of spelling wrong. Maybe study up on the definition of "brag".

[@derlollo7361]

Here is an Idea for a Video try to extract Potassium from Potash

[@homocapensis7854]

La quimica es pasión pura , aquí la encontré, Gracias.

[@freehat2722]

Nice tutorial. I only understood 10% of it, but I think I could wing it.

[@maytronix7201]

I actually want to know how you clean your glassware

[@Sockem1223]

It would be fun to watch you mess around with trying to use the chemicals you produce in a rocket

[@chotramnauthprabhu7538]

What was that musiccc in the timelaps, human music???

[@franglish9265]

Very fitting for Bastille Day!

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Oh yeah! Everyone can blow some S4N4 up for France

[@immortalsofar5314]

Okay, call me boring but how the hell do you clean that apparatus up?

[@antejl7925]

A shelia does it

[@강연수-r2r]

how did you get the chemicals you are using?

[@fbiyoutubecommunityguideli9451]

Appreciated

[@kubiiikk242]

*_yellow chem bad_*

[@zonex001]

Would you like to make some Dinitroacetylene ? By mixing N2O4 and Calcium Carbide in DCM.

[@Rektumresizer]

Btw warp is my favorite song by you guys

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

yellow chemistry D:

[@gunslinga4073]

have you tryed to make floral antimonic acid?

[@vivek4503]

No

[@vivek4503]

But @chemical force has a video on it

[@vivek4503]

kzbin.info

[@wilbertbirdner1303]

2:08 So like if you stepped in dog shit and put your boots in the oven kind of smell then?

[@RobPollen]

whooOOO!

[@ryjelsum]

My (american) ochem prof pronounced soxhlet "socks-let".

[@Sleepy_zzzzz]

6:52 Do you have tiny hands? That little 1/2 tablespoon vial looks roughly equal to your index finger. I did quick test, and my index fingers takes up roughly 15 ml, and I have small hands. Can we get a volumetric test of your index finger?

[@yakacm]

Oh right so you aren't supposed to give you dog 50% tyres with his normal food, jeez I was wondering why his shit smelled so bad, well thanks for that, no more tyres for Norman then, ta very much.

[@magicphilip6880]

W h a t s t h e s o n g

[@steveh6612]

8:55 none of this was a waste of time.

[@hanleypc]

Seriously, keep your dog away from the tyres!

[@WeebRemover4500]

cool, now make 1kg of it

[@jasonpettit9984]

Well next we are going to make some D.M.T.,are we ready?!?!

[@jacobkudrowich]

*extract* not make

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

i'm not ready

[@1earn2fearisley46]

actually the chemicals and process he is doing in this video far surpasses the process of making dmt. Making dmt is actually just kitchen chemistry little bit of sodium hydroxide mixed with the right ingredient then a little bit of naptha then freeze and wha la

[@mealex303]

Make drugs

[@alkylperchlorate388]

It’d be cool to see you wash your equipment, maybe as a livestream?

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Hey good news is that I haven't cleaned the glassware for the last 2 months so it's all dirty, this might happen! Although it does sound a bit boring :P

[@TomsLab]

@@ExtractionsAndIre Knowing you there will be lots of swearing about sulfur and breaking of glassware - very entertaining

[@teamseshmason]

@@ExtractionsAndIre Q&A while cleaning glassware would be amazing.

[@jaffabeast]

Extractions&Ire are you going to do a follow up on explosive plants

[@Hirotechnics]

@@ExtractionsAndIre Do you use Piranha Solution to clean your glassware, or rather, can you?

[@patrickdavis99]

ROFL! "Smells like if your dog had really runny shit and its diet consisted of 50% tires and 50% normal food." God damn dude, thank you for that. This was a great episode those crystals were beautiful!

[@simontillson482]

Great chemistry there. Just wondering... Could you make Polythiazyl? It looks and behaves like metal wool, apparently. Seems interesting stuff.

[@billyosullivan4514]

Mix it with potasium chlorate

[@GodlikeIridium]

Soxhlet. Just say "socks" and "let". Voila. Soxhlet ;)

[@roquri]

Even if that was an optimized procedure, my nose would tell me F'that!

[@covodex516]

"it smells like if your dog had a really runny shit; like if it's diet consisted of 50% tires and 50% normal food" - ah yes, i have this experience with every new dog i get. doesn't last long, but it's pungent.

[@TomsLab]

Love ya, Tom!

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Xoxoxooxoxoxox

[@NormReitzel]

Disulfur dichloride is probably the most putrid stuff I've ever made. Sulfur stench, but sour like old vomit. Marvelous stuff.

[@xyphenius9942]

Thank you for putting me to sleep every night

[@adrianpip2000]

YEAH!!!!

[@alllove1754]

Your descriptions of smell is hilarious. The bit about the dog eating tire bits and regular food and then turd..

[@franglish9265]

Gotta love that the paper is from the sixties.

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Actually a great decade for finding papers for home chem!

[@darianballard2074]

Nice work.

[@detritus10001]

Thank you, young brother. As someone who was clueless at 18, and pissed away my opportunity to complete college before chemistry and nuclear physics struck my fancy, seeing a brilliant (take the complement) and colorful dude making science fun and accessible to us "human goops". Keep up the good work, and hold on to your fingers and wanger. Huge thanks from south Louisiana! Geaux Tigers, baby! (We're a drinking town with a football (American) problem. If I send you enough on patreon, could you make a chemical reaction that could include a possible color scheme of purple and gold (kind of yellow, really, but they call it gold)? Thanks, mate (I hope I didn't come off as a huge dick, I meant that in good fun)

[@CharlesVanNoland]

Always curious about whose music you're rocking on these vids. Sometimes I think it sounds like Autechre.

[@Mister_Brown]

it's aphex twin unreleased tracks that got uploaded anonymously a long time ago

[@CharlesVanNoland]

@@Mister_Brown Yeah it always reminded me of AFX too but I was always automatically thinking "Tom wouldn't upload copyrighted musics... unless he has some special relationship where AFX is actually letting him use his tracks???" I didn't know that unreleased tracks had been put online. Now I know!

[@achyuth6500]

Can you please upload your old videos of S4N4 to KZbin

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Hey man, you seem really keen on these videos. Sad to say, they don't exist, I never made videos on S4N4 back in the day. I just have some raw footage, but it's nothing very interesting

[@achyuth6500]

@@ExtractionsAndIre I would be happy to see those footages

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

@@achyuth6500 yeah? What you interested about with them?

[@achyuth6500]

@@ExtractionsAndIre I liked them

[@achyuth6500]

@@ExtractionsAndIre I would like to see footages of S4N4 synthesis.

[@taithermansen8315]

Bud add a bit of cleanliness to your presentations and I think your gonna be big on this platform!

[@nigeljohnson9820]

While the explosion risks are clear, aren't you a little concerned about the carcinogenic properties of some of the solvents you are using? If you can smell them they are likely to be at a concentration to do some long term health damage. I am writing from personal experience.

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

I mean, yes and no. I'm not huffing large amounts of benzene, and I'm not spending long hours in contact with it. If I was doing this sort of thing every day, then I'd certainly be more worried

[@nigeljohnson9820]

@@ExtractionsAndIre I did not think my exposure to solvents was that long or intense, but I still managed to get a cancer with links to solvents exposure from many years ago. Benzene and toluene still ring alarm bells for me, as do some of the chlorinated alkanes. I know you are a chemist by profession and will no doubt have attended the safety lectures. You have clearly accepted the immediate risks of the interesting compounds you make, however it is easy to ignore the more insidious dangers that may not become apparent for decades after exposure. From a statistical point of view the life expectancy for professional chemists is a lot higher than physicists or mathematicians, they also do their best work later in life. Mathematicians are over the hill at 25:-).

[@kindstranger3871]

Maybe if you learned how to pronounce the letter "H" correctly, you may one day be able to pronounce "soxilic"

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

Is science good enough to help me? I doubt it

[@timrb]

Not sure if this channel has put me on the ASIO watch list or suicide watch.

[@ExtractionsAndIre]

I like being watched

[@cvspvr]

@@ExtractionsAndIre kinky